Thursday, August 1, 2013

Crude Oil Day trading strategy Morning Prep; Screen to Floor 08/01/13




News for Today







Marty's PIT Levels
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Crude Oil 240-minute:
Crude Oil 4-Hour
The Crude Oil 4-hour chart shows us a bearish price-channel that has been broken after the FOMC Report was released on Thursday afternoon.  We don’t need to try and understand WHY this price-action went higher, we would be wiser to worry about WHAT occurred and HOW to trade it this morning.

This big move up may result in a big drop back down this morning, or we may see this strength continue and test the highs from last week.

We can see 3 levels of major price levels above and below us that we need to be concerned with.  The highs of the range at 108.93 will be a target for the buyers today and tomorrow.  107.59 is the next major resistance level overhead and that will be a spot to look for a profit-target or a price-reversal.  106.54 is the previous resistance that was recently broken, and if this 4-hour candlestick closes below the 106.54 we can expect this price-action to collapse quickly.


Crude Oil 60-minute:
Crude Oil 60-Minute
The hourly anchor chart shows us the same information as the 4-hour, but now we add the support levels below us to the scenario.  We can see support below us for short-selling opportunities down at 104.89 and 103.59.  If we get a price-reversal on Crude Oil this morning we will be selling short with those two levels as our profit-targets.



Crude Oil 5-Minute:
Crude Oil 5-Minute
The 5-minute chart shows us trading above the PHOD from the last 2 days, which is yet another bullish clue from price-action.

We can see resistance levels overhead at 107.34, 107.50 and 108.60.  We can see support levels below us at 106.25 which we will use as a profit-target for selling-opportunities today.

We also want to remember that the London trading Session trading-range was VERY wide, over 175 ticks of trading-range overnight. This large trading-range tells us to expect a larger trading-range in today’s price-action.  We will be looking for clues this morning to see WHO is in control as we open the day here in the US.


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